Villa Nova, also known as The Captain Stephen M. Thomas House, is a historic home located near Laurinburg,

Scotland County, North Carolina Scotland County is a County (United States), county located in the southern part of the U.S. state of North Carolina. Its county seat is and largest community is Laurinburg, North Carolina, Laurinburg. The county was formed in 1899 from part ...

. It was built in 1880, and is a two-story, three bay by one bay,

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...

-style brick dwelling, with one-story gabled roof ells. It has a free-standing one-story brick kitchen connected by a covered passage. It has a one-story front porch with a red and blue patterned grey

slate Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism. It is the finest-grained foliated metamorphic ro ...

roof. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1982.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Italianate architecture in North Carolina Houses completed in 1880 Houses in Scotland County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Scotland County, North Carolina 1880 establishments in North Carolina Brick buildings and structures in North Carolina {{ScotlandCountyNC-NRHP-stub